Wearable Time Object

Tag Area: Time Machine
Novelette

Sands of Time 2

Coils of Time

You’ll need some patience with “Coils of Time," seeing as how it takes the hero, Rutherford Bohr Adams, twenty-some pages before you’ll realize that the story is a sequel to “The Sands of Time,” and it’s going to fall to space pilot Adams to travel through the 60-million-year coils of times into the future and the past, saving Earth from the evil Martians and their zombies, while also saving his own boss’s beautiful daughter from a fate worth than death. —Michael Main
It’s another form of the space-time field that I use in the Egg to bridge the gap between the coils of time.
A worried man in a futuristic jumpsuit climbs up shelves of inanimate bodies.
  • Science Fiction
  • War
  • Definite Time Travel
Comic Book

Journey into Mystery #46

The Middle of the Night!

While repairing a watch, Alfred Mott realizes that it can take him back in time, so he heads back to the time of Louis XVI to steal the French crown jewels. —Michael Main
After I repaired it, I tested the our hand by pushing it backward all the way around . . . and today became yesterday!
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  • Weird Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Debatable Time Travel
Comic Book

Unusual Tales #20

The Time Cap

Phil Winship, an executive at an American company in Iran, finds an odd cap in the desert that transports him to a strange laboratory. —Michael Main
Now I realize what happened! This cap is some sort of time-travelling device!
In the first of three panels, a modern man sits in a chair with his cap attached to electrical equipment as an ancient woman and two men look on.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Novelette

“Willie’s Blues”

A music historian travels back to the 1930s to uncover the real story of how Willie Turnhill rose from an extra in the Curry Band to tenor sax virtuoso ever. —Michael Main
He thinks of me now as the one person who’ll be able to say who’s the original and who’s the plagiarist when “the other guy” does eventually turn up!
A radio-telescope in front of a futuristic skyline and a bulbous rocket launching vertically into an orange sky.
  • Eloi Bronze Medal
  • Science Fiction
  • Music and Musicals
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Harry Potter 3

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Compared to the books, I find the Harry Potter movies drawn-out and boring, but I rewatched this one during the pandemic and found that I enjoyed all three thirteen-year-olds as well as Hagrid, Sirius, Snape, Lupin, and—most of all—the fact that the filmmakers didn’t blithely destroy the single static timeline out of a misplaced sense that time travelers are meant to change the timeline willy-nilly. —Michael Main
Hang on! That’s not possible. Ancient Runes is at the same time as Divination. You’d have to be in two classes at once.
Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry Potter), Emma Watson (as Hermione Granger), and Rupurt Grint (as Ron Weasley) are watching something that spooks Harry, fascinates Hermione, and terrifies Ron.
  • Fantasy
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Flash Fiction

No Time

A battlefield plunderer meets his own dead self.
You get attacked, you have no backup, so you become your own.
A star emerging from behind a blue planet.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Witchcraft Mysteries 6

A Vision in Velvet

  • by Juliet Blackwell
  • (Obsidian Mystery, July 2014) [print · e-book] [Publisher—Goodreads lists the e-book edition with ISBN 9781101627983 as being published by Signet/Penguin, but a preview on Amazon shows the publication under the Kindle edition with that exact ISBN as bering published as An Obsidian Mystery, which is an imprint of the Penguin Group. The preview also notes that the first printing was by Obsidian, an imprint of New American Library, a dividsion of Penguin Group. For now, we'll go with the preview info and list both the print and the e-book as being Obsidian Mysteries, both published in July 2014.]
To save her pet pig/gargoyle/familiar, shopkeeper and fabric whisperer Lily Ivory must solve a mystery using clues picked up via a traveling cloak that spirits her off to the Salem witch trials. —Inmate Jan
The cape was in the trunk. When I put it on . . . It’s hard to explain, but it was as though I had been transported to another time and place.
A colorful drawing of a young woman with long, unruly hair wearing a cape near a purple tree with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
  • Fantasy
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Marvel Cinematic Universe 14

Doctor Strange

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil. —from publicity material
Dormammu, I’ve come to bargain.
Benedict Cumberbatch (as Doctor Strange) casts a spell with two outstretched, transparent fingers.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Fantasy
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Film

1989

What are you to do when you fail your high school final exams? In Shakir’s case, he decides to get his friend’s friend to send him back in time a few months to give himself a copy of the exam papers, which seems like a good plan if only he would listen to the warnings about not returning before he leaves. —Michael Main
Large yellow-and-black striped number 1989 superimposed over a lone house at night.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

Marvel Cinematic Universe 19

Avengers: Infinity War

Given that the Time Stone is a key element to Thanos’s master plan, you’d think that time travel would play a major part in this movie, but not so. Doc Strange does use the stone to view a slew of possible futures, but we know that’s not actually time travel. So where does the time travel come into play? Pay close attention to the final thirteen minutes of the film, after Strange announces “We’re in the end game now,” and you’ll spot one definite time travel moment and a second possible moment. —Michael Main
Tony, there was no other way.
A giant Josh Brolin (as Thanos) stands proudly behind a determined Robert Downey Junior (as Iron Man) and the rest of the Avengers.
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Found Things #1

The Little Shop of Found Things

Xanthe Westlake and her mother are looking for a fresh start as owners of an antique shop in the village of Marlborough when a 17th century silver chanelaine calls to Xanthe’s psychic powers and eventually takes her on a quest to save a young servant girl in 1605 (and maybe, in the process, meet a handsome young architect with oddly modern views on women). —Michael Main
Had she somehow crucially alterted her own present by changing Alice’s future? The thought that she might have started some terrible chain of events that she could not possibly have foreseen, nor known about, worried her more and more. It was only in the small hours of Wednesday night that an answer came to her that seemed to make sense. The present that she knew, the way things were in her time, could only have come about if she had traveled back to the past. Her finding the chatelaine, her answering Alice’s call for help, those things were necessary to shape the past and bring about the future as it was. She had to believe this. It did work. She was a part of how things had turned out, not an alternative version, but the one she was meant to live in. If she hadn’t gone back, hadn’t taken the decision to help Alice, well, that wouldhave resulted in a different future from the one she knew.
The door and bowed window of an antiques store, both made of small window panels, face a sidewalk of stone pavers.
  • Fantasy
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

See You Yesterday

Up in the ITTDB Citadel, our first attraction is naturally to the time travel aspects of any movie, even when the result is an incomprehensible time wreck resulting from a pair of teenage geniuses. That’s what’s on the surface here, but it also seems to be a metaphor for the even bigger train wreck of the racist society in the 21st-century United States. —Michael Main
You’re missing the big picture here: If time travel were possible, it would be the greatest ethical and philosophical conundrum of the modern age.
Teens Eden Duncan-Smith (as C. J. Walker with glowing glasses) and Dante Crichlow (as Sebastian Thomas) run in front of a clockface.
  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

The Knight before Christmas

In AD 1334, a crone prophesizes Sir Cole’s future and sends the Englishman on an ambiguous quest to 2019 Ohio, where he does knightly non-Ohioan things and discovers the love of his life on Christmas Eve. —Michael Main
You shall travel to faraway lands, see things undreamed of: flying steel dragons and horses, magic boxes that make merry.
Vanessa Hudgens (as Brooke) in a lacy red dress and Josh Whitehouse (as Sir Cole) in his armor stand back-to-back in front of a modern Ohio Christmas day and a medieval Norwich castle.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Comedy
  • Audience: Families
  • Definite Time Travel
Short Film

A.N.E.W

After his broken watch causes embarrassment, a boy orders a new watch that takes him back to the embarrassing moment more than once. —Michael Main
My watch is not working.
A curious, young Nigerian man opens a Smart Watch box.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

The Tomorrow War

Forty-year-old high school biology teacher Dan Forester is drafted for a seven-day tour of the future where he must fight what seems to be a losing cause in the war against bug/T-rex aliens. —Michael Main
We need you to fight beside us if we stand a chance at winning this war. You are our last hope.
As a purple wormhole opens in the sky, Chris Pratt (as Dan Forester) holds his machine gun high, standing defiantly at the lead position of three others.
  • Science Fiction
  • War
  • Definite Time Travel
Cartoon

What If  . . . ? (s01e04)

What If . . . Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?

As we all know, when the world’s formost surgeon, Doctor Strange, lost the use of his hands in a car wreck, it prompted him to search out mystic treatments and eventually become the Master of the Mystic Arts. But what if he had lost something else in that wreck? —Michael Main
The Ancient One: Her death is an Absolute Point in time.
Dr. Strange: Absolute?
A.O.: Unchangable. Unmovable. Without her death, you would never have defeated Dormamu and become the Sorcerer Supreme—and the guardian of the Eye of Agamotto. If you erase her death, you never start your journey.
A computer animated cartoon drawing of Benedict Cumberbatch (as Doctor Strange) casting a spell.
  • Eloi Silver Medal
  • Fantasy
  • Superhero
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Season

The Peripheral, Season 1

When Flynne Fisher’s ne’er-do-well brother lands a lucrative gig testing new VR tech, he drafts Flynne to do the heavy lifting, and she’s bowled over by the future world the VR has created—until she realizes it’s more than a sim. —Michael Main
If it were time travel, as you say, you’d be here physically. This is merely a matter of data transfer: quantum tunneling is the technical term for it. I understand your confusion.
Close-up of Chloë Grace Moretz (as Flynne Fisher) with her eyes obscured by a scene of rural North Carolina underneath an upside-down futuristic London.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel